Elizabeth Parker and Max Evans used to date and were very happy together. That changed when Liz broke up with Max to save the world so that Tess wouldn't leave Roswell to go back to Antar. With that, she attended a girl's academy as she couldn't bear being in the same town as Max and Tess. Liz is back home a few years later and she realizes things are different, especially Max. When she sees the tattoos on his arms, she realized that her leaving damaged him. What happens when she finds out that this guy is Zan and not Max?
Author's Note: So, this story is going to be in Liz's view. I do stories when they are in different character's point of view. I need to start doing it in just one. Anyway, I haven't done a Roswell story in such a long time, and I hope that this is a good one. I had written four chapters of it, but it wasn't going where I liked it. Anyway, please leave reviews if you enjoy! Thanks! One last thing, I'm in need of a beta.
1. It is the sweetest sin.
I wasn't even sure what I was doing back here, but after graduating from the academy for girls, I felt like it was the smartest thing to do. I missed my best friend, Maria, as well. Just being away from her for a long period of time about killed me. Yeah, she visited me on holidays and vice versa when Max wasn't around. She had even told me about the two dupes that came into town after Tess left. Ava and Zan were Max and Tess's duplicates. I hadn't met Zan but I did meet Ava, who eventually became one of my good friends. With her pink multi-colored hair, she was definitely nothing like Tess, which I was very much grateful for.
"So, it's Michael, Isabel, Ava, Max, and Zan now. Tess moved away a few months after you left when Max would not give her the time of day," Maria explained with a smirk as she set my fries and milkshake in front of me.
I looked over to the booth where Isabel, Michael, Ava, and Max were. From what Maria told me, Zan was Max's total opposite in appearance. I was really curious to who he was, though. From the looks of it, Ava and Max were still together from how Max grabbed Ava's hand every now and then. When Maria told me they were together, I'd been shocked, but it didn't surprise me at all.
"What happened to Rath and Lonnie?"
"From what Zan told us, they're dead. They tried to kill Zan in New York, so he retaliated," Maria commented with a shrug of her shoulders. "They had it comin' to tell you the truth."
"Wow," I said with a shaky breath as I dipped a fry into my milkshake, moaning to the exquisite taste. "I guess he gets things done."
Maria smirked. "I guess you could say that. You'll probably meet him later. What do you say about helping me with the crowd when you're finished eating?"
"I guess I could do that," I said with a shrug as I looked over at Maria, shaking my head.
"How are you by the way?" Maria asked as she was wiping down the counter of where I was sitting. "I mean, with Max being involved with Ava?"
I laughed at her words and simply shook my head. "You just don't waste no time, do you? To answer your question, I'm fine with it. It's been more than a year, Maria. I'm not stuck on him and I'm just glad that it's not Tess he's with. She was just evil."
Maria nodded her head. "Yeah, I think Ava and Tess got switched or something. I'm just glad that Ava's here. Wait until you meet Zan. He sure is something else."
I rolled my eyes. "You keep telling me that."
Maria grinned. "Yeah, I know. Do you have a problem with it?"
I sighed and simply shook my head where Maria walked in the other direction to take a order. I finished up my fries and milkshake after feeling eyes on me. I grabbed my bag and slid off of the counter. I walked to the back after nodding over to the five of them sitting at the table. As I grabbed my work uniform from my locker years ago, I sighed heavily. Yeah, with me being a few years older, there was no way it was going to fit how I wanted it to. Crap.
As I slid my jeans and my shirt off, I groaned as I looked myself in the mirror. I had developed more curves and breasts in all the right place. In high school, though, I was just skinny. As I slid the uniform on, I sighed because the uniform clung to me very tightly. Shit.
"Wow," Maria said with a grin as she looked over at me after I buttoned the buttons and slid the damn apron across my hips. "Liz, you've definitely grown up."
"It's too tight, Maria," I said with a huff, my breasts straining against the fabric of the uniform. "I need a size bigger."
"I think if you don't bend, you should be perfectly fine."
I glared over at Maria when she mentioned not to bend down just as she walked out laughing. I grumbled as I slid the headpiece of the uniform on after I pulled my hair into a ponytail. I wasn't even sure why I agreed to do this in the first place. I wished my best friend back at school, Serena, was here. She wouldn't have let me put this contraption on.
"Wow, Liz," Ava said with a smile as she saw me come out, waving me over. "I can't believe it still fits."
"Barely," I groaned as I sucked in a deep breath. "Maria here was making jokes about it too telling me not to bend over. Maria De Luca is very hilarious."
I saw that Max was staring at me and I shook my head as I walked in the other direction to take orders. With their being a science convention today, traffic was blooming in the diner. Traffic sure was coming in and it sure would help with sales. It didn't help that people were also coming in to welcome me back.
It'd been a few hours when I noticed a guy sitting at the booth with Ava, Max, Michael, and Isabel. He had pulled a chair up and was sitting in it with the back of the chair against the table. He had his arms braced over the back of it. He was wearing a pair of dark blue jeans, a tight black shirt, and a pair of black boots. Shit, his form from behind he looked good, especially with those tattoos along his arms. There were several tattoos – a few being one with his true name from Antar and then the V sign that was implanted in both Max and obviously his brain.
"So, are you ready to meet Zan?"
I looked up from the counter where I had been refilling the ketchup and mustard bottles to see Maria with a smug smile on her face. She actually seemed quite eager for me to meet the guy. Oh man, I wasn't sure what she was up to, but she didn't look so innocent right now.
"No, that's okay," I said with a shrug of my shoulders as I stared over at Maria. "I don't want to interrupt."
"Oh, please. I'll even bring him towards you."
I couldn't stop Maria as she was already walking towards the booth where the five of them were sitting. I rolled my eyes as I went back to refilling the ketchup bottles. I didn't even know what the hell was up with Maria. It was like she was trying to set me up with this Zan guy.
"Liz."
Hearing that voice that sounded almost like Max but with a hint of edge to it, I lifted my head, and he took me by surprise. Wow, like really wow, he sure was a good looking man. He didn't have that that boy look that Max had going on. His hair was a little bit shorter than Max's where some of it was spiky. He actually had the look like he just rolled right out of bed and he had some sort of goatee going on.
How the hell was I to even to concentrate when this guy looked as good as he did? As I looked away and then back to his face, I saw a smirk tugging at the corners of his lips.
"Wow, Maria, you never how beautiful your friend was."
Maria grinned. "Well, I wanted you to be the judge of her."
"Well, she's gorgeous."
I looked between the two of them. "Why are you talking like I am not even here right now?"
Maria grinned as she patted my shoulder. "Be nice to him, Lizzie. He's a nice guy."
I swear, sometimes I didn't know what to do with my best friend. Maria just wanted me happy and I really appreciated it to the point where she drove me absolutely crazy. She was like the sister I couldn't get away from and I found myself shaking my head the more I thought about it too.
"So, you're the famous Liz Parker that I have heard so much about?"
I turned my head to look over at him. He was really handsome and I couldn't not look at him. Yes, he looked just like Max, but there was something about Zan that I couldn't figure out. When Maria had told me that he had taken care of Lonnie and Rath, I was expecting some guy with big hands that looked terrifying.
Zan was drop dead gorgeous. The way he made me feel was something that I've never felt before. Maybe it was the fact that I was more mature as well. I had a good head on my shoulders and knew what I wanted in my life. I had a really good job at the university as well. Things were really looking bright for me.
"I guess I am depending what you've heard," I stated as I looked over at him, sliding off of the stool, and I took a look at him. "What exactly have you heard about me?"
Zan grinned as he grabbed the basket of ketchup and mustard bottles, following me to the table. "Well, you're the same girl that dated Max. He's the one that saved your life when you got shot. Am I getting closer?"
I nearly dropped a bottle of ketchup that I was putting on a table when I heard the words tumbling out of his mouth. "Um, did everyone tell you that?"
A grin spread across his face as he stepped next to me to make it easy for me to put the bottles on the table. "It was Maria, actually. I would have found out, actually. I also know that you left Roswell to get away from Max because he had a destiny to fulfill."
I looked over my shoulder to Max and Ava before looking back to him. "Isn't it weird seeing him with your girl?"
Zan shook his head. "She's not mine, anymore. I didn't love her like that, not the way that she deserves, Liz."
I wouldn't have expected words like that to come out of his mouth. It was a definite surprise the more I looked over at him. "Ava and Tess are two completely people. I never liked Tess, but Ava – she's really kind."
As he set the last two bottles of ketchup and mustard on the last table, he nodded his head. "Yeah, she's a nice girl. Ava and I are the complete opposite. They were actually working for Kivar. Did Maria ever tell you what a piece of work he was like what he did to our planet?"
"Yeah, she had called me a few months later when they met some sort of skins, was it?"
Zan nodded his head. "Yes. Well, I guess it's a good thing that I don't need to explain anything. You're already up to date with every single thing."
I smirked as I nodded my head, running a hand over my apron, and then looked up at him. "Did they also tell you that because Max saved your life here that you are different?"
I raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about?"
As he led me to a table, helping me sit down, he sat down across from me. "Liz, when Max saved you, you have part of our DNA mixed in with your own. I'm surprised that none of them told you this."
"When you say DNA, what do you exactly mean by that?"
Zan sighed as he leaned back in his chair, getting comfortable. "Liz, if it hasn't already, because of how much strange things you've been around, there's a huge possibility that you might develop some of our powers. Have your eating habits changed?"
I blushed shyly as I looked over at the Tabasco bottle sitting by the bottle of ketchup. I hadn't told Maria but I liked it on about everything I ate. My friends at school thought it was weird but I thought I thought it was the perfect combination of spicy and sweet, especially when I had ice cream or my milkshakes.
"Um, no, my eating habits have not changed."
Zan raised an eyebrow as he looked over at me. "Liz Parker."
How the hell did he know that I wasn't telling the truth? Not even Max would have known I'd been hiding this from him? I looked over at Zan and he now had his arms crossed over his masculine chest. Damn. Even as stern as he looked, he still looked really good.
"What is it, Zan?"
Zan reached across the table and raised an eyebrow. "Tell me the truth."
I sighed. He obviously wasn't going to let this go at all and I didn't know what to do. "Fine. If it makes you any happier, then yes, my eating habits have changed. Are you happy?"
Zan let go of one of my hands, only to grasp one of my hands in both of his hands. "Not really, Liz. I was hoping they hadn't changed. So, you like Tabasco on your food just like we do?"
I simply nodded my head as I looked over at him. "Yes."
Zan slid his fingers through my very own, inhaling a deep breath. "Are there any other changes, Liz?"
I felt so comfortable with him and I hated that this had happened to me. Ever since I met Max, I'd been in the weirdest predicaments too. If I hadn't met Max, though, I probably would not be sitting here with Zan. There had been other changes like the usual of changing forms like when Max changed the form of the sculpture or even when my emotions got the best of me like Michael's had in the beginning.
"Yeah, there's a few."
"Do you care to share what's going on with you?"
I then began to tell him of the many differences going on with my body. I hadn't even told Maria. The only other person I had ever told was Serena and now Zan. It was so weird to the fact that I was here with him, explaining what changes my body was taking.
"Does any of these changes in your body hurt you, Liz?"
I love that he was so concerned and I pulled my hands away into my lap. "No, none of it hurts me."
"I'm glad. Do they know?" he asked as he motioned to the Max, Isabel, Michael, Ava, and Maria.
"No. I don't even understand why I told you what I told you."
Zan flashed me that charming smile in my direction. "I must be pretty damn special, Liz Parker."
I rolled my eyes as I stared over at him. "You keep telling yourself that, Zan. Do you even have a last name?"
He simply shook his head. "No. I never picked one since I lived on my own ever since we got sent to Earth. I have to admit that I am fond of the last name Evans."
I scoffed at his choice for a last name. "Well, whatever name you choose, it's a name you need to stick with for the rest of your life."
Being around Zan was really weird. I felt so relaxed and comfortable. With Max, I'd always feel on the go. It could be because of the fact that I was older and more mature. I was not sixteen anymore. I was almost twenty years old and I was going to make sure that I didn't do anything stupid. Although, the fact that Max saved my life from the gunshot, I knew without a doubt on that day that there was no going back to normal.